Explore the world of digital court reporting in courtroom and freelance settings. There is a huge need for more digital reporters, and you can work from home.   

Find out about court proceedings; recording components; and producing Annotations. Learn about the professional integrity; physical and emotional stamina; and terminology needed to be successful in digital reporting.    

Finally, get the basics about the tools of the trade, the equipment needed, maintenance and troubleshooting; and how digital reporters do research on the Internet.

Digital reporting could be the new career for you.

Write and edit better starting today. Gain confidence in your writing. Improve your communication skills. This course will reinforce the rules you learned in school and teach you some you didn't.  

Good grammar doesn't make good writing, but good writing demands good grammar. Whether you're a student or a professional, a career changer or a job seeker, Effective Grammar will equip you to write more effectively from day one. 

You'll learn it all—from grammar basics to more advanced concepts like parallelism and agreement to the finer points of capitalization and punctuation. After completing this certificate, you'll be a master of commas, complete sentences, common sense writing, and more.  

Put an end to grammar mistakes that detract from your work. The grammar knowledge you'll gain will contribute to whatever kind of writing you produce. Everything you learn will elevate your communication skills and help you present polished, professional writing every time.

Boost your chances of success for your new or small business and reduce your risks. Get the latest on planning your business, brainstorming business ideas and a checklist for going into business.

Then learn how to create a business plan, including assessing business feasibility and prepare the management and financial plans. 

Then take home a step by step approach to attract and keep customers, with an emphasis on customer-driven marketing decisions and building a strong brand.

At the end of this certificate, you will be able to identify the abilities required of successful entrepreneurs and how to acquire them, develop goals to help establish your business, develop an outline for your plan, and take home techniques to successfully manage and market your new business.

The classes offered in this certificate are:

• Entrepreneur Boot Camp
   Winter (February 6th - March 3rd)
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th)

• The Business Plan
   Winter (March 6th - March 31st)
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th)

• Entrepreneurial Marketing
   Winter (April 3rd - April 28th)
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th)

If you are not reviewing your website statistics, then you are missing several key opportunities to profit from your website traffic. This Certificate, aimed at non-technical users, will take you through all the key techniques and how to use website analytics using the world-standard Google Analytics, a free online tool.

You’ll understand your visitor traffic better, learn how to calculate return on investment (ROI) for your online advertising, and find out how to get more conversions and sales from your website visitors. A must for anyone serious about leveraging more success from their website.

Classes Include: 

• Google Analytics
   Winter (February 6th - March 3rd)
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th)

• Advanced Google Analytics
   Winter (March 6th - March 31st)
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th)

The Adobe software tools are the leading software for graphic design. Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard computer illustration software. Use Illustrator to draw shapes and design logos, flyers, posters, banners, business cards or any other vector graphics for print or web. 

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. Use Adobe Photoshop to effectively work with selection and editing tools, layers, and masks to edit, retouch and enhance existing images or create your own composite digital art work. Access to the Adobe software tools required.

The classes included in this certificate program are: 

• Adobe Illustrator Essentials
   Winter (February 6th - March 3rd)
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th)

• Adobe Photoshop Essenatials
   Winter (March 6th - March 31st)
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th)

• Adobe InDesign Essentials
   Winter (April 3rd - April 28th)
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th) 

Software Requirements: 

For all online Adobe classes, students are responsible for purchasing their own software for their course. Trial versions of Adobe software are sometimes available on the Adobe company website.  

If you're taking the entire “Graphic Design certificate” you'll need Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. Otherwise you may sign up for a single software. 

*Note: There is no school discount through LERN. More information on Adobe Creative Cloud software can be found at adobe.com 

Discover advanced and new best practices in Integrated Marketing, the growing field that integrates traditional print marketing with digital marketing for even greater marketing success. Young generations are embracing print as well as online media, creating this exciting new area of marketing.

Find out the keys to success in the almost forgotten but still remarkably effective area of print, including catalogs, direct mail letters and post cards.  Gain advanced marketing concepts and principles such as R, F, & M analysis; AIDA, and the 3-30-3 principle, that lead directly to practical marketing success. Acquire the understanding of how digital marketing and print complement and enhance each other, and how to integrate both kinds of marketing for even greater overall effectiveness.    

Come away with a new marketing expertise to make your value in the workplace even stronger. 

Classes included in this certificate program are: 

• Advanced Marketing Concepts
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Successful Print Marketing
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Integrated Marketing Best Practices
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society.   

Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership.  Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions in a positive and effective manner, and addressing challenging goals.  

Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit in for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned.  You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do.  

At the end of completing the three course certificate, you will come away with a new understanding, new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear.

Classes offered in this certificate program are: 

• Leadership Principles
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Developing Your Leadership Skills
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Developming Your Professional career
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same.  But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. 

In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. 

Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles.

Classes included in this certificate program are: 

• Developing the Socialization Skills for Students with
   ASD in the Inclusive Classroom
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Gender Matters: Gender in the Classroom
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Generational Learning Styles
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )